FenPress Development

Roles

• The Subscriber role needs to be conceptually split into two separate roles. See below for details.

Personal Journals

• The default journal type is the personal journal.
• Personal journals have one or more authors.
• Additional authors must be added to a personal journal by the journal’s owner using the standard Users tab.
• It occurs to me that we need an extra Role level in here; Subscriber needs to be split somehow.
  • Fans of a journal can read the journal on their f-lists, but have no other explicit permissions.
  • Subscribers (name change?) to a journal are the equivalent to the notion of a friend in LJ Server-land (i.e. the journal owner allows them elevated permissions).

Communities

• A community is a group blog that has open membership.
• Community status should probably be set as a meta flag.
• A blog marked as a community can have the following membership options:
  • Unmoderated Membership: New members join as Authors and can immediately start publishing posts.
  • Soft Moderated Membership: New members join as Contributors. They can post, but not publish. It is up to the community admins to promote them to Authors.
  • Strictly Moderated Membership: New members join as Subscribers. They cannot post or publish, but are equivalent to the notion of a friend.
  • Closed Membership: New members join as Fans. They cannot post or publish. (This is the option that will eventually be “read this on my f-list” but sans any explicit permissions.)
• Communities should get their own options tab; probably under Users.

Users

• Your basic site member.
• Users can become Fans of other users.
  • Users who are mutually Fans are considered to be Friends.
  • This is going to need a separate table.
  • I have no idea yet what this point of this is; is it really necessary? It seems like a bit of double-handling…

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